Display stand



Sept. 6, 1932. E. H. COOKE ET AL DI SPLAY STAND Filed Feb. l5, 1950frw/h Cooke gimw 9M/L' Attorney Patented Sept. 6, 1932 Unirse STATESPATENT OFFC ELI H. cooKE AND IRWIN B. cooKE,1 or sroIcANn, WASHINGTONDISPLAY STANDl Application led February 15, 1930. lSerial No. 428,775.

Our invention relates to display stands and more particularly to arotary display stand that is adapted to display sacked nuts, candies andthe like. Certain objects of the in- .rfvention are to provide a displaystand comprising a hollow rack body mounted on an upstanding clockdriven shaft and provided with outwardly projecting hooks on which thesacked goods are suspended for display i* by the rotary movement of therack body.

Further objects are to provide, in combination, novel means for closingthe sacks which means also serves as suspension means for the sacks.Other objects are to provide a display advertising compartment withinter mittent illuminating means and other novel details of constructionand arrangement as hereinafter set forth.

With the above and other objects in View rt which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention consists of the novel construction,adaptation, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter describedand claimed. These objects are accomplished by f5 devices illustrated inthe accompanying drawing; wherein Figure 1 is a view in perspectiveshowing the display stand with a rectangular rack body;

Fig. 2 is a view in substantially central vertical section of thedevice;

Fig. 3 is a view in horizontal section taken substantially on a brokenline 3, 3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a detail View partly in plan and partly in section taken on abroken line 4, 4 of Fig. 2 and showing the contact lighting members Fig.5 is a detail fragmentary View in vertical section of the sack rivetfastening and suspension means; and

Fig. l6 is a view in perspective showing a display stand with ahexagonal rack body.

Referring to the drawing throughout which like reference numeralsindicate like parts the numeral 5 designates a hollow base or supportingmember that is provided with an upstanding shaft 6. A hollow rack bodyor casing 7 is provided respectively with an upper and a. lower wall 8and 9 through which said shaft passes and to which same is securedcentrally at 10'and 11 as clearly shown in Fig.` 2 of the drawing. Saidrack body may be made four 'sided as shown in Fig. 1, sixsided as shownin Fig. 6, or of anyV other desired number of sides. y

The. rack body 7 is provided with a plu rality of punched out hooks orfingers l2 pref-- erably disposed in central vertical spaced relationonall the sides of said body, and thegsacks or bags 13 are suspended onsaid hooks. Referring to Fig. 5 of the drawing, theyends of said sacksare foldedy over and* secured by hollow rivets 14. Saidrivets thusprovide fastening means for the sacks and means for' suspending them onthe hooks which are slipped through the hollow rivets as will beunderstood.

lThe means for driving the shaft 6 and likewise the` rack casing 7secured thereto comprises a mechanism designated as a whole bythenumeral 15 whichy is housed within the lower portion of the hollow base5. Said mechanism is substantially the same as an ordinary clock.movement `and no description in detail is considered necessary exceptto say that said mechanism is driven by a main spring 16 that is woundby a key 17 and is provided with a governor or regulator 18 whereby itsspeed may be increased or decreased as desired.

The mechanism 15 is housed within the base 5 below a partition 19 whichdivides said base into an upper and a lower compartment. The means formaking and breaking the circuit for the lighting system is housed within85 said upper compartment and comprises a pair of spaced discs 2Osecured to the shaft 6 and having a plurality o-f contact points 21 withinsulated spaces between. A pair of spring arms 22 mounted within saidcompartment are in resilient engagement with said discs. The current mayenter through the lower disc and pass upwardly through a wire 23insulatively installed within said shaft to a lamp 24 and return throughthe shaft to the upper disc as will be understood.

The lamp 24 is arranged to illuminate a display compartment 25 disposedin the top of the rack body 7 above the upper wall 8. The sides of saidcompartment are provided with windows 26 wherein transparent displaysigns 27 may be placed. A supporting frame 28 having four legs that fitsnugly in the corners of said compartment is slidably installed thereinto hold the display signs in place. Said signs are thus illuminated bythe intermittent light as the device revolves and the signs may bechanged and replaced as desired. In case a hexagonal or other shapedrack body is used the shape and number of legs of the supporting framewill, of

course, be changed accordingly.

It will now be apparent that we have pro-v vided an eicient displaystand of economic construction with means for revolubly dis-` playingsacked goods and advertising signs relating thereto together with meanswhereby the signs are intermittently illuminated.

Having thus described our invention, it be'- ing understood that minorchanges may be resorted to in the construction and arrangement withoutdeparting from the scope and spirit of the invention, what we claim anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is Y As a signexhibitor a display stand comprising in combination a hollow base, arack body supported on the base, a display compartment for the upperportion of the rack body having windows whereby transparent signs aredisplayed, a supporting frame having legs and adapted to be slidablyinstalled within the upper display compartment to retain display signsin place, and means for intermittent illumination of the upper displaycompartment.

.In testimony whereof we affix our signatures..

.ELI I-I. OOOKE.

IRWIN B.v COOKE.

